The European Union's top officials breathed a sigh of relief on Wednesday that Joe Biden will be taking over as president of the United States, but they warned that the world has changed after four years of Donald Trump and that trans-Atlantic ties (...)
Here's how world leaders are reacting to U.S. President Joe Biden's inauguration on Wednesday, replacing Donald Trump.
BRITISH PRIME MINISTER BORIS JOHNSON, SPEAKING IN PARLIAMENT
"I look forward to working with him (Biden), and with his new (...)
Hosts Egypt kicked off their campaign in the main round of the World championship with a convincing 28-23 win over Russia in Cairo on Wednesday.
The Pharaohs were dominant throughout, especially in the first half as they led 15-8 at the (...)
Parler, a social media website and app popular with the American far right, has partially returned online with the help of a Russian-owned technology company.
Parler vanished from the internet when dropped by Amazon Inc's hosting arm and other (...)
Anxiety over what Donald Trump might be up to as president ended with Joe Biden's inauguration yesterday, though Trump is still likely to stir up trouble in other ways. Back here our concern is rather with Biden's plans for the Middle East. Biden's (...)
It has been ten years since widespread protests erupted in Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Libya and Yemen, in addition to smaller-scale ones in a few other Arab countries, with the protests as a whole being collectively named the Arab Spring.
The immediate (...)
Ten years have passed since the outbreak of the revolutionary experiments known as the Arab Spring. If the political uprisings met with varying degrees of success or failure, the waves of turmoil they gave rise to have raised many questions (...)
Egypt's balance of trade deficit shrank by 17 percent to $38.291 billion in 2020, compared to $46.225 billion in the prior year, the Minister of Trade and Industry, Nevine Gamea, revealed.
The North African nation's exports inched down by 1 percent (...)
Palestinians expect to receive a first batch of COVID-19 vaccine by the weekend, officials said on Tuesday - at a time when more than a quarter of their Israeli neighbours have already been inoculated.
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has ordered (...)
Egypt is expecting new batches of Covid-19 vaccine, Sinopharm from China and Oxford/AstraZeneca, to arrive by the end of this month.
As soon as the batches arrive, the ministry will start calling on the public to take the vaccine which will be (...)
The 32-nation 27th Men's Handball World Championship, being held in Egypt from 13 to 31 January, entered its second round, the main draw, with no major upsets.
The preliminary round concluded on Tuesday with the top three teams in each of the eight (...)
كشفت المتحدثة باسم وزارة الخارجية الروسية ماريا زاخاروفا أن أتباع الرئيس الأمريكي دونالد ترامب يبدون اهتمامًا متزايدًا بالحصول على الجنسية الروسية بعد فوز جو بايدن في الانتخابات في نوفمبر الماضي، وفقا لموقع روسيا اليوم.
وفي حديثها إلى مقدم البرنامج (...)
Western nations told Russia to immediately free detained Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Monday, a day after he was detained at a Moscow airport after flying home for the first time since he was poisoned last summer.
Russia quickly rejected calls (...)
A Russian judge on Monday ruled that Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny should be held in custody for 30 days until Feb. 15, his spokeswoman said, a day after he was detained upon his arrival in Moscow.
"The court arrested Navalny for 30 days. Until (...)
Egypt slumped to their first defeat at the ongoing World Championship on Monday when they lost to Sweden 23-24 in Cairo.
The Pharaohs made a good start of the game as they controlled the first half that ended with a three-goal lead for Egypt, thanks (...)
Police detained prominent Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on arrival at a Moscow airport on Sunday after he flew home to Russia from Germany for the first time since he was poisoned last summer.
The move, which could see Navalny jailed for 3.5 years (...)
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Sunday dismissed a claim by France that Tehran was in the process of building up its nuclear weapons, calling it "absurd nonsense".
French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, in an interview with the (...)
A Libyan political dialogue arranged by the United Nations has made progress towards agreeing a new transitional government to oversee the run-up to elections in December, the U.N. said on Saturday.
Participants at talks in Geneva agreed on a (...)
Fiji, the favourite of Western nations, won the presidency of the U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday, beating Bahrain and Uzbekistan in a secret ballot that resolved a tense deadlock over the selection.
The vote was called after an impasse that (...)
Russia announced on Friday it was pulling out of the Open Skies treaty, saying that the pact, which allows unarmed surveillance flights over member countries, had been seriously compromised by the withdrawal of the United States.
The move, announced (...)
A global team of researchers arrived Thursday in the Chinese city where the coronavirus pandemic was first detected to conduct a politically sensitive investigation into its origins amid uncertainty about whether Beijing might try to prevent (...)
A top Turkish official is calling on the new U.S. administration to engage in a dialogue with Turkey and to review a decision to sanction the country over its purchase of an advanced Russian air defense system.
That request comes even though (...)
The number of COVID-19 cases worldwide has surpassed 90 million, reaching 90,054,813 as of Wednesday, according to the latest numbers from the World Health Organization (WHO).
Globally, as of 9:47 am CET (0847 GMT) on Wednesday, there have been (...)
Even the most optimistic could not have predicted that a vaccine against the Covid-19 would have been developed in such a short period of time. This is a battle that modern science has won. We were told it would take 18 months to two years or more (...)
Israel has denied Palestinians access to the vaccine after it rebuffed a World Health Organisation (WHO) vaccine request last week for the Palestinian health workforce as an immediate priority target group, citing shortages at home. Palestinians (...)
